Currently, the fastest way to get there is to used the Wicked hood's teleport, which could only be used 2 times, or 3 if all the wicked robes have been purchased from the Runespan. The second fastest way is to break a cosmic altar teleport tablet. Both of these methods teleport the player just outside of the altar. The wicked hood can be obtained by talking to Tam McGrubor, and the teleport tablets by playing the Great Orb Project.

The maximum likely limit for crafting cosmic runes in one visit is 506. This would be achieved by having 59 Runecrafting, giving 2 runes per essence, and carrying 253 essence to craft (23 in the normal inventory along with 48 in the 5 sizes of Runecrafting pouches, along with 175 claimed from the wicked hood (if all the Wicked robes have been purchased), and 7 from any abyssal summoning creature. The maximum possible experience is 2,024 obtained while doing the above.

Using the orb of oculus, you can see Maggie of Draynor to the north, this is because there is a miniaturised version of Draynor village north of the Cosmic Altar (this is not the actual village as the main RuneScape world is to the far south of the altars), and to the east, you can see the Death Altar. Also player may find the cosmic entity's plane to the west of altar.

The spheres that fly throughout the altar look like Air Blasts using the old animation.

It is currently possible to find implings here. It is currently unknown if this is a glitch or not.

When entering the Cosmic Altar, players will be sent to one of the north, west, east, or south portals at random.